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Peer reviewedJohnson, Lawrence – Linguistics, 1975
Deals with the shift of the low-back vowel as in 'caught' to a low-central vowel as in 'cot' thereby merging such pairs as caught/cot, dawn/Don, and stalk/stock. The causes and the sociolinguistic implications of this shift are discussed. The majority of the informants were from West Los Angeles. (TL)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Usage, North American English
Peer reviewedLoflin, Marvin D.; Guyette, Thomas – Linguistics, 1976
The proposition that education affects dialect to a significant degree is examined. The findings leave doubt whether an educational differential is adequate to explain the maintenance of dialect differences between ethnic groups. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Education
Peer reviewedApte, Mahadev L. – Linguistics, 1974
A sociolinguistic analysis is made of the use of gratitude expressions by Marathi and Hindi speakers in South Asia, and a comparison is made to American practices. (RM)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Cultural Exchange, Cultural Influences
